We currently have 2 separate connections to independent Internet Backbones. A T3 connection to UU.NET (alternet) and a T3 connection to Verio. A T3 is a huge pipe that is more than 20 times as big as the standard ISP 1.5 Megabit/sec T1. T3's are common in the core network of the major national internet backbone providers. They are also used by larger, progressive regional providers like ourselves. Our T3 allows us to better serve our regional business customers by giving them the smooth seamless growth path in bandwidth they know they will need. It speeds web browser connections into the net to delight our residential customers as well. UUNET is a strong, venerable backbone provider that supplies connectivity to Microsoft and thousands of other large prestigious customers. UUNET is also known for its large transoceanic Internet pipes, and its highly fresh and extensive Usenet News feeds. Building Reliability. Our two network connections run directly between Monmouth Internet and the respective nationwide Internet backbone suppliers. We run real time "bgp peering" sessions with all three so that traffic failover is automatic and graceful when necessary. It is interesting to note that Monmouth Internet is much more reliable than any one of these or other major National Backbone providers. This is because the large national backbones have such a large number of overgrown mega routers that are in intimate communications with each other that when 1 of these routers goes haywire it has a nasty tendency to bring down many of its neighbors in the same National Backbone. Hardly a week goes by without 1 of the big 5 backbones loosing routing on the East Coast for 4 to 10 Hours. By choosing a very high powered router (A Cisco 7206) for our regional network hub and by peering with 3 backbones we routinely bridge over these rather nasty backbone lapses so that they do not impact Monmouth Internet customers or people viewing the webpages of our customer sites. The two connections also provide a higher degree of best path routing. It is true that our UUNET T3 is extremely well connected through Newark to the Sprint NAP in Pennsauken NJ, the MCI interconnect in West Orange NJ, as well as numerous other NAPs. However it is still good that our local Router directs traffic for Verio and its customers directly into Verio. This minimizes the routed path length involved as well as spreading traffic on our connections. Sometimes routing on the net is disrupted in how path routing information is disseminated. When this happens it is often possible that one backbone has a way to get somewhere while the other backbones, temporarily, do not. Thus 2 backbone connections significantly reduce the outages in this type of transient disruption as well. To make a long story short we have engineered our Network for the very finest in Reliable, Fast Internet Service with growth bandwidth always at hand: Choose Monmouth Internet and leave the routing to us! Back to Monmouth Internet Back to Dedicated Access